The Saltire Society was established in 1936 to encourage everything that might improve the quality of life in Scotland and restore the country to its proper place as a creative force in European civilisation . It seeks to preserve all that is best in Scottish culture Scottish tradition and to encourage new developments which can strengthen and enrich the country s cultural life. It has wide ranging interests including Scottish history history , Scottish literature literature , Scottish music music , Scottish drama drama , List of architecture prizes UK architecture and planning and promotes excellence in many fields through a series of national awards. The Society also seeks to revive the memory of famous Scots and to make the nation conscious of its Scottish heritage heritage . It seeks to influence decision makers in Scotland through its committees. As well as working at national level the Society has members in Branches throughout Scotland, working to promote the Society s aims within their own communities. Membership of the Society is open to all individuals and organisations who support the aims of the Society. Annual membership is 30. The name is taken from the flag of Scotland , which has the form of a saltire . ref To foster and enrich the first fifty years of the Saltire Society by George Bruce. Edinburgh,1936. ISBN 0854110062 ref Presidents Expand list date August 2008 2005 William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk 2005 Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood The Right Honourable The Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, K.T. ref http www.saltiresociety.org.uk president.htm Saltire Society Website ref References reflist External links http www.saltiresociety.org.uk Official website Category 1936 establishments Category Organisations based in Scotland Category Scottish culture Scotland org stub ... more details
The http www.saltirefoundation.com Saltire Foundation is a charitable organisation, created in 2006 in conjunction with Scottish Enterprise , with the aim of promoting and developing Scotland s rich pool of up and coming business talent. ref http www.saltirefoundation.com ref The Foundation operates two distinct schemes The Undergraduate Internship programme and the Saltire Fellowship. The Foundation s Chairman is Peter Lederer, who is the current chairman of the Gleneagles Hotel group and VisitScotland . ref http www.diageo.com en row NewsAndMedia PressReleases 2007 Gleneagles strengthens leadership structure.htm ref The Foundation s motto is Invest. Inspire.Succeed. Inception The http www.saltirefoundation.com Saltire Foundation was a positive reaction to Scottish Enterprise s International Advisory Board IAB ref http www.scottish enterprise.com international advisory board ref identifying a shortage of aspirational and entrepreneurial leaders as a problem for the Economy of Scotland Scottish Economy . Crawford Gillies, a member of the IAB and now Chairman of Scottish Enterprise, championed the creation of the foundation, to expose upcoming Scottish business leaders to companies of scale, particularly in North America. In conjunction with this, world class education would be on offer as an alternative to other business education options, to equip potential leaders and entrepreneurs with the tools required to build high growth, scale concerns in the Scottish Economy. The foundation was created through seed funding provided by the Scottish Government, however it aims to raise an endowment of 30 million to allow it to be self financing for years to come. ref http findarticles.com p articles mi qn4156 is 20071104 ai n21088502 ref The Undergraduate Internship Programme The Undergraduate ... scheme operated by the Saltire Foundation and has been in effect since 2007. Most placements are sourced ... Programme.aspx ref The Saltire Fellowship The Saltire Fellowship is aimed at more experienced ... more details
The Saltire Society awards the following literary awards ref cite web url http www.saltiresociety.org.uk 3695 title The Saltire Society Awards ref Scottish Book of the Year Scottish First Book of the Year Scottish History Book of the Year Scottish Research Book of the Year Awards are made to any book by an author or authors of Scottish descent or living in Scotland, or for any book which deals with the work or life of a Scot or with a Scottish question, event or situation Scottish Book of the Year was established in 1982. Past Winners Scottish Book of the Year ref cite web url http www.saltiresociety.org.uk 3695 title Book of the Year Past Winners publisher Saltire Society accessdate 2010 10 19 ref 1982 Lanark book Lanark by Alasdair Gray 1983 Collected Poems by Derick Thompson Poems of Thirty Years by Edwin Morgan poet Edwin Morgan 1984 God and the Poets The Gifford Lectures by David Daiches Intimate Voices Slected Works by Tom Leonard poet Tom Leonard 1985 Collected Poems by Norman MacCaig 1986 A Question of Loyalties by Allan Massie A Storm From Paradise by Stuart Hood 1987 The Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark 1988 Games with Shadows by Neal Ascherson The Enchanted Glass Britain and its Monarchy by Tom Nairn 1989 A Question of Loyalties , Allan Massie 1990 O Choille gu Bearradh From Wood to Ridge , Sorley MacLean 1991 Scottish Art 1460 1990 , Duncan MacMillan dn 1992 Collected Poems , Iain Critchton Smith 1993 Robert Burns A Biography , James A. Mackay 1994 Beside the Ocean ... top literary prize as Saltire awards get boost.php Kelman takes top literary prize as Saltire awards ... 2009 11.html National Library of Scotland Burns Biography takes Saltire main prize ref 2010 And The Land ... Saltire Society accessdate 2010 10 19 ref This is awarded to an author who has not previously ... http www.saltiresociety.org.uk 3990 title Research Book of the Year Award Past Winners publisher Saltire ... 3965 title History Book of the Year Award Past Winners publisher Saltire Society accessdate 2010 ... more details
Information Description The Device of Uluric de Exeforde Per saltire gules and azure a saltire Or, in pale two lions passant guardant, in fess two fleur de lys. Source I created this work entirely by myself. Date Author User Dlkeller999 Dlkeller999 User talk Dlkeller999 talk other versions GFDL self migration relicense ... more details
Arms of the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells . The design is a variation on the saltire of St Andrew . Source A.C. Fox Davies, The Book of Public Arms T. C. & E. C. Jack, London, 1915 Licensing PD old 70 ... more details
Saint Andrew s cross or Andrew Cross may refer to Saltire , X shaped cross in heraldry and vexillology Flag of Scotland , white saltire on a blue field Saint Andrew s Cross BDSM , X shaped cross in BDSM dungeons St. Andrew s cross philately , an otherwise blank area on a sheet of stamps, which is printed with a cross St Andrew s Cross spider Andrew Cross Award for UK religious journalism disambig ... more details
Information Description The Device of Uluric de Exeforde Per saltire gules and azure a saltire Or, in pale two lions passant guardant, in fess two fleur de lys. Source I created this work entirely by myself. Date Author User Dlkeller999 Dlkeller999 User talk Dlkeller999 talk other versions GFDL self migration relicense ... more details
Summary Information Description Saltire with Scottish National Antarctic Expedition emblem First published in The Voyage of the Scotia by Rudmose Brown, Mossman and Pirie, Blackwoods, Edinburgh 1906. Source http www.fotw.net images g gb saexp.jpg Date around 1902 Author not known Permission other versions Licensing PD US ... more details
distinguish The Sopranos The Sopranos is a 1998 novel by Scotland Scottish writer Alan Warner . It won the Saltire Society s 1998 Scottish Book of the Year Award . External links http www.richmondreview.co.uk books soprano.html Review in The Richmond Review DEFAULTSORT Sopranos category Scottish novels category 1998 novels scotland stub 1990s novel stub ... more details
Shield of City of Cork Author User Djegan Official description of coat of arms Or, on waves of the sea a ship three masts in full sail proper between two towers gules upon rocks also proper each tower surmounted by a flag argent charged with a saltire of the third with the motto Statio Bene Fida Carinis. GFDL with disclaimers migration relicense ... more details
Other uses Quadrate disambiguation Unreferenced date December 2009 In heraldry , an ordinary heraldry ordinary is described as quadrate or more fully Variations of ordinaries Nowy nowy quadrate when it has a square central boss. gallery File Durham shield.png Shield of Durham University Argent, a cross paty quadrate gules on a canton azure a chevron or between three lions rampant or. File Cross 09.03 markinch.jpg Banner of the Burgh of Markinch , Scotland Gules, on a cross nowy quadrate argent a cock gules. File Cross paty quadrate wiki.jpg Gules, a cross paty quadrate or, charged with five mullets of eight points gules a chief arched ermine charged with two Cornish choughs proper Vickers, England gallery Only certain ordinaries are usually shown quadrate the cross , the pale heraldry pale , and the fess but not, for example, a bordure or chevron insignia chevron . A saltire quadrate has the square oblique gallery File Quadrate saltire wiki.jpg Arms of North West South African province North West Province, South Africa Per saltire gules and azure, a saltire quadrate vert, fimbriated argent ... gallery External links http www.civicheraldry.co.uk norfolk ob.html freebridge 20lynn 2ordc Former arms of Freebridge Lynn Rural District Council, showing a cross quadrate. http www.civicheraldry.co.uk staffs ob.html cannock 20udc Former arms of Cannock Urban District Council, showing a cross potent quadrate. DEFAULTSORT Quadrate Heraldry Category Heraldry Category Heraldic ordinaries Heraldry stub ... more details
Summary East of Scotland Universities Air Squadron Crest, approved by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008. It almalgamates the Saltire and book of East Lowlands University Air Squadron and the lion rampant of Aberdeen, St Andrews & Dundee Universities Air Squadron. Cuide Laidire is Scottish Gaelic for Together Stronger after the two Squadrons were amalgamated . Licensing cc by sa 3.0 ... more details
of amenities. Tourists can follow the Saltire Trail , a road route which passes by various local landmarks ... guide scotland factfile scottish icons saltire The History of the Saltire at visitscotland.com http www.crwflags.com fotw flags gb scotl.html The Scottish Saltire at Flags of the World ... and operational costs of the Heritage Centre and the Saltire Memorial in Athelstaneford See also ... more details
red saltire on a white field. Historical research has failed to ascertain the origin of this flag ..., French Admiralty charts show that Jersey was using the red saltire before the adoption of that symbol ... that the saltire was simply taken from the arms of the FitzGeralds whose arms carry the same cross ... before the use of the red saltire in the Union Flag. It appears therefore that the FitzGerald flag ... of the red saltire became more common during the Occupation of the Channel Islands German Occupation ... Germany . Some claim that the red saltire has a Normans Norman origin. The red saltire of the Order ... FitzGerald dynasty . If it is an old Norman symbol, then Jersey s saltire may derive from the same .... George s cross St. George s Cross of the English Crown to form a saltire. As Jersey gained a higher ... confusion with the cross of St. Patrick as an Irish symbol, and that the red saltire had been taken ... red saltire that had been used since time immemorial. A third influential body of opinion campaigned ... dependencies flags Flag of Europe Category Jersey Category National flags Jersey Category Saltire ... more details
Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Day title orig translator image prefer 1st edition image caption author A. L. Kennedy cover artist country United Kingdom language English language English series genre Novel publisher Jonathan Cape release date 5 April 2007 media type Print Hardcover Hardback pages 288 pp isbn 0224077864 oclc 76797964 preceded by followed by Day is a novel by A. L. Kennedy . It won the novel category and the overall Costa Book of the Year Award in the 2007 Costa Book Awards . The novel is about a man who was a tailgunner in a Avro Lancaster Lancaster bomber aircraft during World War II . Later, he is an film extra extra in a film about prisoner of war prisoners of war . ref http news.bbc.co.uk 2 hi entertainment 7167678.stm Costa Book Award list announced , BBC, 2008 01 02. ref ref http www.cbc.ca arts books story 2008 01 03 costa awards.html Much rejected first novel wins Costa award , CBC, 2008 01 03. ref ref http www.heraldscotland.com a l kennedy wins saltire award 1.870070 Saltire Book of the Year Award , Glasgow Herald, 2007 12 01. ref Footnotes reflist Category 2007 novels Category British novels 2000s novel stub ... more details
oars, and may be blazoned thus Azure, on a saltire or between four ostrich feathers argent, two oars in saltire proper, the blade of that to the dexter dark blue and that to the sinister light blue. Blue with a yellow saltire x between four white feathers, the two paddles crossed and lying along and atop the saltire When in 1965 that borough merged with its neighbours to form the London Borough of Richmond ... more details
Created by me with Inkscape using public domain lions from sodipodi flags collection BR GFDL en migration relicense The Coat of Arms of the University of Waterloo was granted in 1987. The shield s Heraldry Blazon blazon is as follows Or, on a chevron Sable between three lions rampant Gules a chevronel Argent. The full blazon of the arms rarely used continues Above the Shield is placed an Helm suitable to an Incorporation a Salade proper lined Gules with a Mantling Sable doubled Or, and on a Wreath of the Liveries is set for Crest between two maple branches in saltire a trillium displayed and leaved all Proper, and in an Escrol over the same this Motto CONCORDIA CUM VERITATE . ja Waterloo crest.png ... more details
npov date October 2008 unreferenced date October 2008 Ma Cameron s was a brand of high quality Scotland Scottish confectionery . The company sourced the sweets from cottage industries and small family suppliers after rigorous sampling. Ma Cameron s focused on Scotland s traditional sweets, including popular old favourites such as Granny Sookers, Toffee Doddles, Cinnamon Balls, Brandy Balls, Clove Rock, Edinburgh Rock, Hawick Balls and Saltire Rock. The range also includes fudge, tablet and macaroon. The company ceased trading in 2007. Category British confectionery Category Scottish cuisine confection stub ... more details
Summary U.S. 156th Infantry Regimental Coat of Arms br The Regimental Coat of Arms of the 156th Infantry , approved 12 October 1951, is the heraldic representation of the history, tradition, spirit, and loyalty of the unit. By means of the symbolic color of blue, the shield reflects the Regiment s service in the Infantry. the saltire St. Andrew s Cross , formerly borne on Confederate battle flags, indicates the unit s Confederate heritage while the leopard, taken from the arms of Normandy, depicts the Regiment s service in Northern France during the Second World War. The motto Dieu et Moi means God and I . Licensing PD USGov Military Army PD USGov Military Badge ... more details
File Flag of Arkhangelsk Oblast.png thumb right Flag of Arkhangelsk Oblast The flag of Arkhangelsk Oblast , a federal subjects of Russia federal subject of Russia , was adopted 23 September 2009. It consists of a blue saltire on a field of white, charged with the Coat of arms of Arkhangelsk Oblast . Its ratio is 2 3. References http geraldika.ru symbols 24295 in Russian DEFAULTSORT Arkhangelsk Oblast, Flag Of Category Arkhangelsk Oblast Flag of Arkhangelsk Oblast Category Flags of the federal subjects of Russia Russia flag stub pl Flaga obwodu archangielskiego pt Bandeira de Arkhangelsk ru uk ... more details
Wazemmes is a former Communes of France commune in the Nord department Nord Departments of France department in northern France , merged into Lille in 1858. Heraldry Blazon arms img1 Blason Wazemmes 59.svg legend1 Arms of Wazemmes text The arms of Wazemmes are blazon ed br Azure semy de lys Or, a tower argent issuant from which 2 croziers bases in saltire Or. See also Communes of the Nord department coord missing France Category Lille Category Former communes of Nord Nord geo stub fr Wazemmes nl Wazemmes ... more details
Chairman of the Saltire Society . For eleven years since its inception, Rankin also served as treasurer .... ref http www.saltiresociety.org.uk 3698 Saltire Society, obituary, retrieved 2010 10 17 ref Henry ... The Saltire Society http www.cantilenafestival.co.uk Cantilena Music Festival ... more details
Information Description Royal Coat of Arms of Patiala State cquote Ermine, a target sable, bossed or, in chief saltirewise two daggers, gules hilted of the third, in base a sword of like tincture and a musket proper, in saltire. Crest. An elephant. Supporters. A lion and a bay horse, each ensigned with an annulet argent. Motto. Phularka Kirana Prabha. Source The golden book of India a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire by Sir Roper Lethbridge Author Sir Roper Lethbridge Date 1893 Permission Insignia PD old ... more details
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